Other articles / technical documents

Notes on practical photometry (pdf), written based on work in the Pulsed-Bipolar imager project carried out at Synaptics, Foveon and National Semiconductor around 1997. Provides magic formula relating chip illumination to scene illumination These notes also explain photometry units: nits, candela, lumens, lux, and they relate incident illumination to luminance of a surface.

Publications by others

These are some hard-to-find publications that are still useful

Misha Mahowald, VLSI Analogs of Neuronal Visual Processing: A Synthesis of Form and Function, PhD thesis, Caltech, 1992. She won the Caltech's Clauser prize for the best PhD thesis for this work, which included the silicon retina, AER communication, and a beautiful stereopsis chip. Later published in reworked form as an overpriced but very well-written Kluwer book retitled as An Analog VLSI System for Stereoscopic Vision. Still expensive at Amazon.

*C. Mead (1990) Neuromorphic Electronic Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol 78, No 10, pp 1629-1636
Carver Mead's summary paper on the rationale and state of the art in 1990 for neuromorphic electronics.